Archive for October, 2012

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Saturday, October 27th, 2012

SO OFTEN it’s being in the right spot at the right moment that provides me with the next story or observation to share with readers, or recall memories and give me inspiration for the next article. (more…)

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

LOCH SHIEL, where I spent several teenage holidays with an uncle and aunt, is one of Scotland’s longest lochs – seventeen miles from Acharacle at its foot to Glenfinnan at the head. Never more than half a mile at its widest, it has a dog-leg about a third of the way up where its east-west axis takes a bend to the north-east. (more…)

Saturday, October 6th, 2012

THE DOYENNE and I jumped at the chance to join her niece and her partner at a holiday cottage at Dorlin on the north side of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. As a teenager I had often joined an uncle and aunt who holidayed for over twenty years at the Acharacle Hotel, at the foot of nearby Loch Shiel, so it was very much a trip down memory lane for me. (more…)